Lady Gaga’s Fans Think ‘Marry The Night’ Is About Her Having An Abortion

Lady Gaga‘s music videos often go for the outlandish, but she maintains that her newest video “Marry the Night” is completely autobiographical. The fashions, ballet sequences, and explosions are a way to relive and retell a past trauma, she told MTV News when the video was first released a week or so ago: “The entire story’s true, and it’s through the lens of how I choose to repaint my past.”

With that in mind, Gaga’s “little monsters” (fans) have started putting forward theories as to what the video could be about. The strongest theory is that Gaga (formerly known as Stefani Germanotta) had an abortion. This reasoning, which appeared over conversations on Twitter, Facebook, and a Gaga fansite, has a lot of support in details from the video as well as Gaga’s own interviews.

In the “Prelude Pathetique,” Gaga freely admits that she “prefer[s] to remember [things] in an artistic way. Truthfully, the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.” This is the first time I’ve actually seen the video, so I’m incredibly intrigued by Gaga sharing details like how the nurses are wearing next season’s Calvin Klein dresses and gauze caps to look like Parisian berets.

But, she adds, “Back then at the clinic, they only wore those funny hats to keep the blood out of their hair.” This shift to frankness reminds us that there’s a more serious story going on here than in past videos like “Just Dance” or “Poker Face.” Here’s the evidence that Gaga’s fans have gathered:

•     Talk of mothers: The obstetrician who treats Gaga coos over how she delivered her way back when and she looks just like her mother. Gaga’s answer is, “But my mother was a saint,” which seems to have the unspoken thought I’m a mother, or I used to be.
•     No intimacy: The doctor tells Gaga that she can’t have any “intimacy” for two weeks after this mystery procedure, which matches up with the statute of limitations on women having sex after abortions.
•     Bandages: When Gaga is undressing at home, we see that she’s wearing thick underwear like you would give women who’ve had abortions to staunch bleeding and prevent infection; and tape across her breasts like the “snug bras” intended to stop milk production.

There are also factors that would support the theory that Gaga was raped, leading to the suspected abortion: She’s said that losing her virginity at 17 was a “terrible” experience; and more bizarrely, the night of the video’s premiere last week she tweeted #NeedARuffee, possibly referring to the date-rape drug.

Kudos to the Examiner for putting all of this together. Now here’s the “Marry the Night” video so you can judge for yourself:

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